Biography of Asa N. RichmondMadison County, NY Biographies

Richmond, Asa N., son of Sylvester and Christina (Walter) Richmond, was born in Stockbridge, September 8, 1836.
His father, a lifelong farmer, was a native of Franklin county. Mass., and removed from Deerfield in that State
to Troy in early life. He settled in the town of Stockbridge just south of the Five Chimneys in 1832, and cleared
the farm where he lived and died He was a man of importance in his time and was commissioned a captain in the old
State militia by Governor Marcy. Of his union with Christina Walter two Sons were born: Anthony Augustus, who removed
to the State of Missouri, where he died, and Asa N., the subject of this notice. Asa N. Richmond was reared on
his father's farm and received the educational advantages afforded by the district schools of the neighborhood.
He has been engaged in farming all his life. From the home farm in Stockbridge he removed to a farm of 200 acres
two miles west of the village of Canastota, where he resided a period of sixteen years, and at the end of that
time came to his present farm four and one half miles south of the village of Oneida, where he has ever since resided.
At his farm near Canastota Mr. Richmond was one of the first to engage in hop growing. He is well known and universally
respected in this region, and holds membership in Oneida Lodge. No. 270. F. & A. M. Mr. Richmond married, March
22, 1859, Mary Virginia Nelson, a daughter of Elisha Nelson of Vernon. Of this union are two children: Gertrude
Marion Richmond, and Leroy C. Richmond, who assists in the conduct of his father's farm.

FROM:
Our County and it's people
A Descriptive and Biographical Record of
Madison County, New York
Edited by: John E. Smith
The Boston History Co., Publishers 1890